Dan suffered a concussion and experienced a loss of memory for events that occurred just before his head injury, which illustrates forgetting due to anterograde amnesia.

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The loss of memory for events that occurred just before the head injury is an example of retrograde amnesia, not anterograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia refers to the inability to form new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.

Dan Suffered a Concussion and Experienced a Loss of Memory